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Church And State In Montenegro: From The Serbian Orthodox Church To The Church Of Serbia, Vladimir Bakrač Dec 2022

Church And State In Montenegro: From The Serbian Orthodox Church To The Church Of Serbia, Vladimir Bakrač

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

The paper deals with the role of religion and the church in the post-socialist transformations of society in Montenegro, focusing on the period from the 1990s to 2022. The goal of the paper is to present the historical and sociological (non-)cooperation between the church and the state in Montenegro and their reflection on social circumstances. According to sociological expertise, secularization and atheization of the society carried out by the then political regime and aligned with Marxist reflections on religion were in force until the 1990s. Subsequently, a period of desecularization of society and revitalization of religion and religiosity followed. Accordingly, …


Changes In Identity: How Mongolian Musicians And Performers Have Responded To Geopolitical Transition, Heather Cook Oct 2022

Changes In Identity: How Mongolian Musicians And Performers Have Responded To Geopolitical Transition, Heather Cook

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

During Mongolia’s socialist period, traditional forms of Mongolian music were deliberately altered as the government, heavily influenced by the Soviet Union, attempted to modernize Mongolian culture. Throughout this period, traditional instruments were modified, the types of music that could be performed were strictly censored, and the structure of performances was set to strictly mimic those of Western orchestras. After Mongolia’s Democratic Revolution of 1990, the artistic freedom of Mongolian musicians has greatly increased, but even now, socialist cultural policies are deeply intertwined with Mongolian musical culture. Why is this the case? What is the common perception among performers about the …


“Practice Basic Hygiene, And You’Ll Stay Healthy”: How Primary School Reading Textbooks Transmitted Cultural Education In The Soviet Union, Victoria Storozenko Aug 2021

“Practice Basic Hygiene, And You’Ll Stay Healthy”: How Primary School Reading Textbooks Transmitted Cultural Education In The Soviet Union, Victoria Storozenko

University of South Florida (USF) M3 Publishing

Russia’s Cultural Revolution, beginning after the October Revolution in 1917, produced a broadly defined understanding of culture and cultural education at Russian schools that encompassed even basic hygiene and health. Drawing from postdoctoral research, this paper discusses the Cultural Revolution’s impact and its ideas on cultural education as presented in textbooks for 10-year general education schools in the Soviet Union. Discourse analysis revealed that the schoolbooks acted as an interface between a functional education system and changes in its surrounding environment, especially changes due to the Cultural Revolution. Amid today’s COVID-19 pandemic, the study’s findings raise several questions about what …


"Unite The Left": Contextualizing Bukharin's Abc Of Communism And Berkman's Abc Of Anarchism, David Hayter Jan 2021

"Unite The Left": Contextualizing Bukharin's Abc Of Communism And Berkman's Abc Of Anarchism, David Hayter

Theses and Dissertations

In 1919, Nikolai Bukharin, the leading theoretician of the Bolshevik Party, published a manual entitled The ABC of Communism meant to put the governing ideology of the newly formed Soviet State into eminently readable terms. Alexander Berkman, a Russian Anarchist who strongly supported the October Revolution, became disillusioned with the new regime in 1921 and left the country. He later published his own tract entitled The ABC of Anarchism. This thesis pits these two theoretical works against each other as historical documents embodying the nature of leftist polemics that has characterized the movement since the dissolution of the First …


War, Fields, And Competing Economies Of Death. Lessons From The Blockade Of Leningrad, Jeffrey K. Hass Feb 2015

War, Fields, And Competing Economies Of Death. Lessons From The Blockade Of Leningrad, Jeffrey K. Hass

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

War can create a massive amount of death while also straining the capacity of states and civilians to cope with disposing of the dead. This paper argues that such moments exacerbate contradictions between three fields and “economies” (logics of interaction and exchange) – a political, market, and moral economy of disposal – in which order and control, commodification and opportunism, and dignity are core logics. Each logic and economy, operating in its own field, provides an interpretation of the dead that emerges from field logics of normal organization, status, and meanings of subjects (as legal entities, partners in negotiation, and …


The Russian Gulag: Understanding The Dangers Of Marxism Combined With Totalitarianism, Mark C. Riley Apr 2013

The Russian Gulag: Understanding The Dangers Of Marxism Combined With Totalitarianism, Mark C. Riley

Senior Honors Theses

This study examines the Soviet Gulag, the main prison camp administration implemented in the Soviet Union. The GULAG represents an institution that is not well known, and this paper will explain why it existed and why it remains in the shadows of history. Terror, propaganda, and belief in progress represent the three ideas that directed the Soviet totalitarian system. This thesis will accordingly explore the ideology behind totalitarian government and Marxist practice in order to understand why the Gulag was allowed to exist. Finally, it investigates the reasons why the Gulag has not taken a priority position in human knowledge …


Chile Impone El Monopolio Oficial De Los Productos De Consumo, Frente Popular Anticomunista Mexicano Jan 1973

Chile Impone El Monopolio Oficial De Los Productos De Consumo, Frente Popular Anticomunista Mexicano

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Publicaciones del F. P. A. C. M. de Divulgación Histórica, Orientación y Propaganda, No. 45


¿Qué Es El Socialismo ?, Frente Popular Anticomunista Mexicano Jan 1973

¿Qué Es El Socialismo ?, Frente Popular Anticomunista Mexicano

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Publicaciones del F. P. A. C. M. de Divulgación Histórica, Orientación y Propaganda, No. 46


La Crisis En La Iglesia, Frente Popular Anticomunista Mexicano Jan 1972

La Crisis En La Iglesia, Frente Popular Anticomunista Mexicano

Mario Diaz Cruz Pamphlets

Publicaciones del F. P. A. C. M. de Divulgación Histórica, Orientación y Propaganda, No. 44


Marxism Since The Communist Manifesto, Alfred G. Meyers Jan 1961

Marxism Since The Communist Manifesto, Alfred G. Meyers

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Marxism Vs. Soviet Despotism, Arnold Petersen Jan 1958

Marxism Vs. Soviet Despotism, Arnold Petersen

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


Stalinist Imperialism: The Social And Economic Forces Behind Russian Expansion, Eric Hass Jan 1946

Stalinist Imperialism: The Social And Economic Forces Behind Russian Expansion, Eric Hass

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.


The Permanent Revolution, Leon Trotsky Jan 1931

The Permanent Revolution, Leon Trotsky

Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

No abstract provided.